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6 cairo-clock - an analog clock drawn with vector-graphics
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9 cairo-clock [--x X] [--y Y] [--width WIDTH] [--height HEIGHT] [--sec‐
10 onds] [--date] [--theme name] [--ontop] [--pager] [--taskbar]
11 [--sticky] [--twelve] [--twentyfour] [--refresh]
12 cairo-clock -h, --help
13 cairo-clock -v, --version
14 cairo-clock -l, --list
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17 This manual page documents briefly the usage of the cairo-clock pro‐
18 gram. You can move the clock around with your mouse by pressing and
19 holding the left mouse-button and dragging your mouse around. The clock
20 will follow your movements. To resize the clock you have to press and
21 hold the middle mouse-button down and drag your mouse around. The
22 upper-left corner of the clock will follow your movements. Just click‐
23 ing the right mouse-button on the clock will bring up the popup-menu.
24 You find three menu-items. Properties, Info and Quit. Selecting the
25 Properties item will bring up a dialog where you can change all avail‐
26 able features of the clock (e.g. size, theme, display of optional ele‐
27 ments, pager- and taskbar-behaviour). The next menu-item, Info, will
28 bring up an informational dialog stating the name of program, current
29 version, author and license information. The third and last menu-item,
30 Quit, really exits the program if you select it. Surprised?! ;-) You
31 can also hit the ESC-key if you want to exit the program.
32 If you want to install additional themes for the clock you downloaded
34 from the internet you can best place them in you home-directory under
35 ~/.cairo-clock/themes. You proably have to create that directory-struc‐
36 ture the first time you install new themes. A theme there goes in a
37 directory like e.g. ~/.cairo-clock/theme/new_theme. Once you copied
38 the new themes directory there you will be able to select it via the
39 Properties dialog in the theme-selection widget after a restart of the
40 program. The theme-directories are only scanned during program-start.
41 The newly added 24h-mode for cairo-clock will need you to select any of
42 the supplied 24h-themes. While the clock will run without any problems
43 if you switch to 24h-mode and still use a 12h-based theme, you are
44 going to want to select a 24h-based theme in order to make any sense of
45 the displayed hand-positions in 24h-mode.
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48 cairo-clock now uses common GNU-convention for commandline-options.
49 Take note that using commandline-options overrules everything which
50 maybe stored in your local settings-file. Using the commandline-options
51 will completely ignore any settings you may have stored in your local
52 settings-file. Every option will default to program-internal settings.
53 A summary of options is included below. There is no Info file on this.
54 -x, --xposition X
56 The initial x-position of the top-left window-corner of the
57 clock will be X.
58 -y, --yposition Y
60 The initial y-position of the top-left window-corner of the
61 clock will be Y.
62 -w, --width WIDTH
64 Initially open the window of the clock with a width of WIDTH.
65 -g, --height HEIGHT
67 Initially open the window of the clock with a height of HEIGHT.
68 -s, --seconds
70 Passing this means to render the seconds-hand. If you leave this
71 out no seconds-hand will be drawn.
72 -d, --date
74 Passing this means to render the date-display. If you leave this
75 out no date will be drawn.
76 -l, --list
78 List all themes installed system-wide and locally for the cur‐
79 rent user and exit.
80 -t, --theme NAME
82 Use theme NAME for rendering. Use the any of the names returned
83 by the options -l or --list.
84 -o, --ontop
86 Passing this means the clock-window will stay above all other
87 windows. If you leave this out other windows can overlap the
88 clock-window.
89 -p, --pager
91 Passing this means the clock-window will appear in the pager. If
92 you leave this out the pager will ignore the clock-window and
93 not display it.
94 -b, --taskbar
96 Passing this means the clock-window will show up in the taskbar.
97 If you leave this out the clock-window will not show up in the
98 taskbar.
99 -i, --sticky
101 Passing this means to have the clock-window appear all your
102 workspaces. If you leave this out the clock will only be visible
103 on the current workspace from where you initially started cairo-
104 clock.
105 -e, --twelve
107 Passing this will force the hour hand to use commonly known 12h
108 per full circle.
109 -f, --twentyfour
111 Passing this will cause the hour hand to spread 24h across a
112 full circle.
113 -r, --refresh RATE
115 Use an animation-refreshrate of RATE for rendering. Use this
116 with caution! Possible values are 1..60 Hz.
117 -h, --help
119 Print a usage-description and exit.
120 -v, --version
122 Print the programs version-number and exit.
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125 If redraws don't happen every second (the second-hand is drawn) the
126 needed refresh after a window-size change via the preferences-dialog
127 only happens on a minute-interval.
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130 cairo-clock is written and maintained by Mirco Mueller <macslow@ban‐
131 gang.de>.
132 This manual page was written by Mirco Mueller <macslow@bangang.de>, for
134 the Debian/Ubuntu project (but may be used by others).
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